I just wrote a lengthy review, and a swipe of my magic mouse deleted it. I'm not re-writing it. Not now, at least.But I did enjoy this book and I'm very glad to have read it, despite my protest during the process. It's not an easy book nor is it a happy one. But it's a good one.
I was oddly disappointed in this. Not in the quality of the writing, which is superb. The author sets out to accomplish a task, and the technique of writing is bent and twisted to her will, achieving her vision exactly as her mind's eye must have seen it. My complaint is simply with her intended eff...
I was certainly not happy to hear Defoe insist at length, in the preface, that he'd taken all the dirty parts out. Defoe was many things as a writer, but "fun" isn't high up the list.Also, check out this sentence: "She asked him if he thought she was so at her last shift that she could or ought to ...
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